Lucid vs. old Intel video card

[Niki Kovacs]

Hi,

I have an old (understand: around 2002) Fujitsu Siemens laptop that's 
been running various *nixes over the years: Slackware, FreeBSD, PC-BSD, 
then CentOS. After having served a few years as my main workhorse, I've 
converted it into a sandbox machine for network testing.

Curiously enough, I'm having troubles with a plain Ubuntu 10.04 install. 
Now as I recall, there's always been more or less a problem with the 
video card. I've been in the habit of manually configuring xorg.conf, 
and if I remember correctly, I've always had to replace the "intel" 
driver in xorg.conf by the deprecated "i810", otherwise X wouldn't start.

Anybody know the twist how to get this to work without having to jump 
through burning loops ?

Cheers,

Niki Kovacs